The Jewish Council of Greater New York held its annual meeting Sunday afternoon and evening, at the Central Jewish Institute. The organization, which is the New York branch of the American Jewish Congress, discussed its participation in the forthcoming session of the Congress.
In a discussion which developed among the 130 delegates who attended, it was the consensus of opinion that greater attention must be paid to Jewish problems in America and that an effective organization to cope with the situation should be created.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the principal speaker of the sessions, declared that the time has come for responsible leadership in the United States to turn its mention from minority problems in Europe to the grave problems in this country. “While we are not exactly a minority in the United States,” he said, “there are very grave problems in Jewish life which must be confronted. We must cease as Jews to act for others leaving our own questions manswered, our own problems unsolved. We face every (##) problem in American Jewish life, play at it, tinker with it, and in some degree solve it. But we shun, evade, run away from the great problems.” What these problems were, the declared, would be recounted in detail in this message to the Jewish Congress.
Others who addressed the conference were. Dr. Louis I. Harris. Dr. Mordecai Soltes, Z Tygel, Herman G. Robbins and Julines S. Burke.
The Councilwent on record as opposing the bill now in Congress to register aliens, authorized an investigation of disctimination practiced against Jews in various professions; (Continued on Page 4)
The following officers, in addition to an executive Committee of 44 were elected: Honorary Presidents, Dr. Mordecai Soltes, Col. Maurice J. Mendelsohn; President, Hyman G. Robbins; Vice-Presidents, Judge Gustave Hartman, Judge Adolph Stern, Hon. Louis Diamond, Z. Tygel, M. Jesse Gould, Hon. Julius S. Burke, Dr. Louis I. Harris, Max Eckman; Treasurer, Marcus S. Gross; Secretary, Miss Rose Stern.
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